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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Because Americans take over platforms and force them to obey American rules while pretending to be neutral. For example, LemmyWorld touts itself as an instance for everyone which is hosted in Europe.

But its /News and /Politics community discourse is forcefully limited to the USA. This is incredibly weird if you stop to think about it for a second.

Imagine if .ml had a /Politics community where the only allowed politics was China. And an unreliable biased Chinese website was to grade sources a credible, instead of the unreliable American MBFC website. Nobody would think that would be normal. But do the same thing for America and everything is fine.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think there was a conscious effort to emulate reddit subs, which is daft but that's what happened.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Did they get Ghislaine Maxwell to run /worldnews as well?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Have you posted articles and discussions relevant to your country?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

In their relevant communities yes. But not in a world news.

People from around the globe don't need to hear about the latest epstein fart.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Yes plenty. I didn't say "I do not live in the US."

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Except if the comments are german.

In that case:
𝔇𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔢 𝔎𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔲𝔪 𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔅𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔰𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔨 𝔇𝔢𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡!

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

it would be so weird of .ml only allowed one perspective

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah imagine that

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Would be even weirder if people started going into meltdown mode every time a non-mbfc approved site was posted on .ml. Screaming at the .ml mods to delete the post and constantly linking their Zionist-ran mbfc site because they have been indoctrinated into using it.